TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ziegler,Philip
TI  - The Black Death
SN  - 9780061718984
AV  - RC178.A1 Z5 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
KW  - Black Death
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - 476-1492
N1  - First hardcover edition published: New York : John Day Co., 1969; Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-312) and index; Origins and nature -- The state of Europe -- Italy -- France: the state of medical knowledge -- Germany: the Flagellants and the persecution of the Jews -- The rest of continental Europe -- Arrival in England: the west country -- Progress across the south -- London: Hygiene and the medieval city -- Sussex, Kent and East Anglia -- The Midlands and the North of England -- The Welsh borders, Wales, Ireland and Scotland -- The plague in a medieval village -- The toll in lives -- The social and economic consequences -- Education, agriculture and architecture -- The effects on the church and man's mind
N2  - A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europe's people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this crucial epoch in a single masterly volume. The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age
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